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A Leading Role for the Security Council
October 21, 2001 By Mikhail S. Gorbachev The New York Times MOSCOW - In the past month, the world has witnessed something previously unknown: a common stand taken by America, Russia, Europe, India, China, Cuba, most of the Islamic world and numerous other...
Disaster Spotlights Need for International Action
September 23, 2001 By Kim Cranston and Laura Mcgrath Moulton San Jose Mercury News Since World War II, humanity has mastered extraordinary challenges. We can orbit the earth. We can transplant organs. We can travel faster than sound, and we can communicate...
Missile Defense a Threat
August 11, 2001 By Jonathan Dean and Jonathan Granoff Chicago Sun Times Commentary In their July 22 meeting in Genoa, Italy, President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to consider the topics of national missile defense and further cuts in nuclear...
Addressing the Cold War’s Unfinished Business
June 4, 2000 By Alan Cranston and Tad Daley Los Angeles Times When Air Force One touched down in Moscow yesterday, nuclear politics again took center stage, just as they did so often during the Cold War. Nearly three decades ago, the Nixon administration and the...
Defensive Shield Would Reduce Safety, Fail to Stop Missiles: The New Nuclear Question
June 4, 2000 By Alan Cranston and Zachary Bishop Allen San Jose Mercury News YOU ARE POINTING a loaded machine gun at someone just a few feet away. His loaded machine gun is aimed at your chest. You've been doing this for 50 years, and now your adversary is...
Fail Safe Remains a Tale for Our Times
April 5, 2000 By Alan Cranston Global Beat Syndicate SAN FRANCISCO -- This Sunday, a live television drama will reintroduce millions of viewers to the dangers posed by nuclear weapons. The CBS television network will broadcast a remake of Fail Safe, the 1964...
U.S. Must Rethink Its Nuclear Policy
June 9, 1998 By Alan Cranston San Francisco Chronicle India's and Pakistan's nuclear tests reveal the impotence of current policies intended to prevent proliferation. Moralizing appeals, threats of sanctions and offers of military and economic aid for not...
Nuclear Abolition Statement by International Civilian Leaders: An Assessment and An Appeal
February 1998 By Alan Cranston Disarmament Diplomacy -- Issue No 23 The abolition statement by international civilian leaders, made public on 2 February 1998 by General Lee Butler and the State of the World Forum - the full text of which follows this article - follows...
Nukes Beget Nukes: Away with Bombs
November 16, 1999 By Alan Cranston San Francisco Examiner LOS ALTOS HILLS: Shortly after atomic bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I met Albert Einstein. He warned if the bomb were developed further, and ever used all-out, the human race could be...
NATO and Peace Would Gain from a No-First-Use Policy
December 15, 1999 By Thomas Graham, Jr., Robert Mcnamara and Jack MendelsohnL.A. Times We believe it is critical for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to reconsider its nuclear policy and agree to a no-first-use provision on nuclear weapons. Such a policy would...
United Nations
GSI on Voice of America: Analysis of the Bush-Putin Arms Treaty / Middle Power Institute Initiative Events – Alan Cranston Peace Award
The Global Security Institute was pleased to provide analysis of the recently-signed nuclear arms agreement between the US and Russia during an interview with Voice of America Radio, which reaches a global audience. To listen to a brief audio clip, please visit...
The NPT: Crisis and Challenge Part I and Part II – Report and Assessment of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee Meeting – Summary
SUMMARY An exercise in frustration, the first meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the 2005 Review of the Non-Proliferation Treaty dashed the hopes raised at the 2000 Review for serious progress on nuclear disarmament. Not only did the Nuclear Weapons...
Remarks Upon Accepting the Alan Cranston Peace Award by Jayantha Dhanapala, Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs – Award Ceremony Hosted by the Global Security Institute – United Nations, New York
Remarks upon Accepting the Alan Cranston Peace Award by Jayantha Dhanapala Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs Award Ceremony Hosted by the Global Security Institute United Nations New York, NY 16 April 2002 Excellencies, friends and comrades - not in arms...
Please Join GSI at the United Nations – Public Invitation – The GSI Presents the Aslan Cranston Peace Award to Jayantha Dhanapala
Please Join GSI at the United Nations Public Invitation The Global Security Institute presents the Alan Cranston Peace Award to Jayantha Dhanapala UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs who will deliver a keynote address following the presentation of the...
The Power Over the Ultimate Evil: In the Footsteps of Gandhi and King by Jonathan Granoff – GSI
United Nations New York April 9, 2002 Presented at the Closing Ceremony of the 2002 Gandhi and King Season for Nonviolence Cosponsored by: Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations, The Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for...
GSI Recommendation: Permanent Secretariat for the NPT – Submitted to the Parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty PrepCom
New York April 8-19, 2002 The NPT should be supported by a permanent secretariat based at the United Nations. There needs to be a formal analysis of the best format for such a modest institutional requirement. NPT SECRETARIAT The NPT does not have a permanent...
Middle Power Initiative Strategy Consultation Report Respectfully Submitted to the States Parties of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
New York April 8, 2002 On April 8, 2002 the opening day of the 2002 NPT Review Conference Preparatory Committee, the Middle Powers Initiative, a program of the Global Security Institute, hosted a Strategy Consultation at the United Nations in New York. The Strategy...
The NPT: Crisis and Challenge (Part l) – Report and Assessment of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee Meeting by Senator Douglas Roche, O.C. Chairman, Middle Power Initiative – U.N. New York
Global Security Institute April 8-19, 2002 SUMMARY An exercise in frustration, the first meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the 2005 Review of the Non-Proliferation Treaty dashed the hopes raised at the 2000 Review for serious progress on nuclear disarmament....
The Moral Imperative for Abolition of Nuclear Weapons by Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell- Speech to the U.N. NPT Preparatory Committee, U.N., N.Y.
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The NPT: Crisis and Challenge (Part lll) by Senator Douglas Roche
13. NGO Statements: 14 Presentations 13.1The PrepComm devoted the whole of Wednesday morning of the first week to hearing 14 NGO Statements. The exercise was convened by Reaching Critical Will, a project of the Women's International League for Peace and...
U.S. Congress
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